Cyrus thanked the host for the kind words before seemingly being overcome with emotion.

“I can’t really talk about it. I don’t know why it makes me so upset. It just really makes me really upset,” she said, with tears in her eyes. “I couldn’t fake it. My grandma’s sitting here, my mom’s here, and I go home to my seven dogs. If I didn’t have that anymore, it would just be really hard.”

Cyrus continued, “I’m really happy to help any way that I can and I hope people understand and can put themselves in those people’s shoes and know what it feels like to have everything taken away from you.”

“I love that my friend @MileyCyrus stepped up for the people of #Texas and is donating half a million dollars,” DeGeneres wrote on Instagram, alongside the above clip from her show.

DeGeneres also made a massive donation of her own to Harvey relief funds, giving $1 million to Houston Texans star J.J. Watt, who’s raised over $7 million through his crowdfunding page to help families in need.